PBA Galleries

Anonymous but well-executed watercolors, undoubtedly done for a book, but we have not been able to identify it. Many with captions, some with extensive notes on the versos either in ink or pencil, relating to Native American customs, religion, habits, etc. The paintings depict many different tribes, from the northern plains to the Southwest, and into Mexico and Central America, with chiefs, medicine men, ritual dances, fertility rituals, battles against whites (including one that is apparently Custer's Last Stand), Indians assimilated into Catholic Church, preparation of food, and much more, detailed and provocative depictions the Native American peoples.